Mandya: Pandavapura Police have succeeded in nabbing the driver of the private bus that plunged into Visvesvaraya Canal at Kanaganamaradi in Pandavapura taluk which resulted in the   death of 30 people.

The driver, identified as Shivanna, a native of Holalu village in the taluk, was arrested in Bengaluru on Saturday. He had gone absconding soon after the incident.

It may be recalled that the bus tragedy took place on Nov.24 afternoon which snuffed out 30 lives. Only four persons, including driver Shivanna, conductor Pandu, Lohit, a boy from Vadesamudra and Girish survived.

According to the report from the Regional Transport Officials, it was confirmed that negligence on the part of the driver had led to the tragedy.

Pandavapura Police, who had formed two teams to trace and nab the driver, arrested him on Saturday in Bengaluru.

According to Police sources, driver Shivanna would be produced before a Court today after interrogating him.

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